Army Pvt. Isaac Cortes, 26, of Bronx, N.Y., enlisted in January and deployed to Iraq in September with the 10th Mountain Division. “I think he joined because he wanted to go to college,” a neighbor told Newsday. “He was a nice kid, a polite kid.” Cortes, an Army scout, was killed Nov. 27 by a roadside bomb in Amerli, about 100 miles north of Baghdad. “It’s sad,” a friend told Newsday. “Isaac had everything in life right in front of him.”Â Â Â Army Spc. Benjamin Garrison, 25, of Houston studied at Houston Community College before joining the Army in 2006. “He said, ‘I want to serve my country, use the military’s college plan, and provide for my family,'” his mother told the Houston Chronicle. Garrison, a radio telephone operator, died in the same bomb blast that killed Pvt. Cortes. Garrison is survived by his widow, Carla, his high school sweetheart whom he married in May.